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Hakeem Richard

Saturday, Jan. 26, at 8:24 p.m., BPD patrol officers responded to a burglary in progress in the 3200 block of Ogden. A person called dispatch and said three people broke into a vacant house. Officers set up a perimeter and searched the house. Inside, officers located Hakeem M. Richard, 23, and Kerria Washington, 17, both from Beaumont. The third person was able to flee before officers could set up the perimeter.

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